{"author":"Sara Ayad","author_id":"Sara+Ayad","total_quotes":2,"quotes":[{"text":"The replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes \u0026 Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided a wide range of reading, but their policies further limited choice.","author":"Sara Ayad","tags":["books","bookstores","limitations"],"id":27026,"author_id":"Sara+Ayad"},{"text":"This is an instance of the truism that, when switching from one recording medium to another, there is always a considerable data loss. As the Roman empire declined, continuing preservation of early texts would be dependent on the efforts of the book copyists in the Middle Ages - and good luck. Are there any resemblances to our current digitization concerns?","author":"Sara Ayad","tags":["books","data-loss","digitization","preservation"],"id":209881,"author_id":"Sara+Ayad"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}